Vegans coming to visit. Need suggestions for breakfast and snacks.
Vegan couple coming. Need suggestions for breakfast, snacks. Will probably go out for dinner. Staying two nights. Help!!!
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Vegan couple coming. Need suggestions for breakfast, snacks. Will probably go out for dinner. Staying two nights. Help!!!
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Including eggs, which many if not most vegans don't eat?
How about avocado toast? My favorite iteration is mashed avocado, seasoned with Everything but the Bagel seasoning & lemon/lime juice. Drizzled with a fruity extra virgin olive oil.
Or just a nice hearty whole grain loaf of fresh baked bread: homemade or from the grocery store. A lot of supermarkets now carry some stellar bread. Serve with a vegan butter or cream cheese and maybe some jam.
You can also sauté mushrooms or greens with garlic and olive oil and serve over toasted bread or soft polenta/grits.
These are also great for lunch.
For breakfast: Oatmeal made with almond or soy milk and fruit and nuts for topping. You could make a veggie scramble and add tofu (or not) for breakfast also. Homemade granola. Kite Hill yogurt (Whole Foods) is made from cashew milk. Here are some vegan breakfast recipes. https://food52.com/recipes/search?q=Began&tag=breakfast,test-kitchen-approved,vegan&o=relevance
For lunch: Peanut butter sandwiches, hummus and vegetables. Grain bowl with beans and vegetables. A big wonderful salad.
Snacks: Oranges, apples, bananas with peanut butter or almond butter. You could roast some nuts and stir them together with pretzels and have a snack mix. If you use olive oil in place of melted butter in this recipe, it's vegan. https://food52.com/recipes/8370-sweet-and-spicy-pretzel-and-nut-mix
Have fun!
Plus, if you don't mind serving the same thing twice, you can make enough for two breakfasts, all in one go.
Simpler, but perfectly delicious: combine 3/4 cups of steel cut oats, 3/4 cups of rolled oats, a tiny pinch of salt, and 1 quart of water in a pan with cinnamon / mixed spice /pumpkin pie spice, or whatever, plus a handful of raisins or dried cherries. Cook over medium heat until all the water is absorbed. Serve with bananas or raw firm apples cut into chunk and unsweetened vanilla almond milk or whatever non-dairy milk they prefer. This too can be made in advance. This will make four servings. ;o)
* eggplant
* felafel
* peanut butter and jelly
* hummus and tahina, fully garnished.
For breakfast I'm on weaker ground, so have a look at the search results here - various pancakes, fruit salads with nuts and seeds as a protein boost, plant milk smoothies, so on.
Side dishes - salads, bread, etc. made without either dairy or meat.
Drinks - you would think beer and wine are an easy choice, they sound plant-based after all. But check the web for processing notes - some use animal products in the refining or aging process.
General notes - Similar to maple syrup, which apparently often uses pig fat to strain the foam at the end (you know, like the butter foam when making jam). If you want help in choosing packaged products, go to a store (if you're lucky enough to have one nearby) which has kosher products. [Or, order online if you have enough lead time.]
Ask a salesperson or an online contact for help.
Look for signs on the label reflecting various certifying organizations (OU, COR, K, etc) and the letter P or word parve. With the P or parve, the food is neutral - no dairy, no meat. So should be ok for your vegan guests.
Good luck, and ask for more info if you need it.
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During most of the year, it likely means "parve" or non-dairy and non-meat.
Coming up to Passover (mid-April this year), it can also mean ok for that holiday (no leavening or other ingredients not eaten on that holiday).
So if you are shopping inbthe kosher section, see a P on a label but it looks to have dairy or meat, do check the ingredient list.